This is the place where I enjoy sharing my technology and life interests. I use Altoplace to learn how to do website development and save notes for my future reference. Hopefully, others will find them helpful. Here you will find information that has worked for me; I hope to hear what has worked for you.
This post describes how I configured Postfix on my Mac to relay outbound email via my Pair Networks SMTP service.
Why? I am creating a local website development environment where PHP applications may generate email messages for contact forms or notifications. For example, after installing WordPress, it generates an email message announcing a successful install. However, I can use the built-in mail command to run a simple test to verify that my send-only mail service is working.
This is a followup post to my earlier
Configure Apache and PHP-FPM on macOS
post. With the addition of MySQL to my Mac website development environment, I can now install Content Management Systems, such as WordPress that require a database system to function. My original post supports static website development (for example,
Grav
). My current website host,
Pair Networks
, uses MySQL versions 8.x. I am creating a similar environment on my Mac. My Altoplace website uses MySQL 8.x, so this post will describe using MySQL 8.x.
I want to share how I solved an issue with
Cache Enabler
caching duplicate copies of my WordPress website content. I should note that my website is hosted on a VPS host that is running Apache. If you are using Cache Enabler, you will see your pages and posts cached under domain.com/wp-content/cache/cache-enabler/.
All the cached pages and posts are under the website domain-name directory. My problem was, I was also seeing two additional directories that looked like:
